PETER BROOKES – Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, National Security Affairs, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy

Topic: U.S. shoots down Syrian plane

• U.S. pilots operating over Syria won’t hesitate to defend themselves from Russian threats, a Pentagon spokesperson said Monday in the latest escalation between the two superpowers since a U.S. jet shot down a Syrian aircraft on Sunday.

• The United States is inching closer to involvement in the Syrian civil war after U.S. forces shot down a Syrian fighter jet on Sunday.